Mariska Hargitay, last year’s Emmy winner for her role as Detective Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and daughter of Jayne Mansfield, didn’t get quite what she wanted for her 19 Beach Street penthouse.

The apartment, first listed this year for $6.495 million, then price-cut twice, has sold for $5.1 million to Shawn Mays and Ouma Sananikone, city records show. Ms. Saninikone, according to an old news report, is a “former Laotian refugee” who became a prominent Australian businesswoman.

The roof deck upstairs is private. “I lie out in the sun, have parties,” she said. Downstairs, the ground-floor garage belongs to the penthouse: “It’s like Batman. You pull in, and there’s only room for one car!”

The interior designer Jeffrey Bilhuber said he gave the apartment “an American clarity and a New York pizzazz.” Television sex crime detectives and Laotian refugees both deserve pizazz.